The Arc Plan Lifestyle is uncomplicated and makes choosing a balanced meal easy for you and your family. Use your senses to guide you. The first one is to use your sense of sight. Meals should be full of colour. ‘Natural’ food comes in five main colours – white, brown, green, red and orange.

Make sure that you have at least three of these colours in each meal and then look at the proportion of each in your meal. Try to even up the amounts of the ‘vibrant’ colours (red, orange, green) against the more ‘calm’ ones ( brown and white).

Remember that a meal can be made up of one, two, or three courses. It is the over all ‘visual’ that you need to look at, not necessarily individual courses. I have found that this approach works very well with children and they enjoy making up their colour palate.

P.S. I don’t want to hear that you are colour blind!